Dave Burns
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- Joined
- May 26, 2001
- Messages
- 139
Hey yall,
As per recomendation by Mike Garrison(racebuicks) I just want to take minute introduce myself and invite yall to Kearney Nebraska to the Great Plains Challenge. This is a small Buick event that we have put together just to have some fun and race our cars. And I am Dave Burns the event director and organizer.
We have used the 3rd weekend in July as our date the last 2 years and again this coming year that is the date we are trying to secure. The weather is hot, but of course it is summer, so what can we expect. And we have to use weekends that won't clash with other Buick events. So we try to set our dates in such that it gives us a chance to make as many races as possible for us in the midwest. For example the Pueblo Colo., Noble Ok., and now the Topeka Buicks vs. Pontiacs race. As soon as the date is set in stone I will let yall know so you can plan on attending.
Using last years race as an example heres what happened -----------
Friday- started arriving, setting up, and had a by donation BBQ. We don't run on friday, but instead park the cars and trailers at the track, crack open the "beverages" of choice and socialize. Donations were collected by several of the girls from everyone, a trip was made by them to market, and they rolled out a VERY nice BBQ dinner for all there. This alone, to me, was worth the trip. Bench racing,visiting, meeting old friends and making new ones, looking cars over, etc. Just pretty much sitting around and having fun. About midnight those that had rooms in town packed it up and made the trip into a poor defenseless parking lot
. Coolers unloaded, lawn chairs set up and, well, basically the festivities were continued. Not to mention a "repaving" of the parking lot with rubber by a couple GN's as a preview of the next days events.
Saturday was raceday. Pretty much your basic get ready to run deal. The gates were opened around 7:30 and business at hand went on as with any other race. Consession stand handled lunch. At about 4 pm the gates were opened to anyone that wanted in, and at about 6 ish' the KRP crew put on a gamblers race(which Steve P. won in his 455" regal, good job Steve). Saturday evening about 30-40 of us took over a local steak house for dinner, then back to the now wounded, parking lot for another evening of fun.
Sunday was a KRP regular event day with a hot rod reunion. Several kool cars and another full day of racing for those that chose to stay and run the regular bracket schedule.
Pretty much this is set up for a fun day, with payouts to the winners, as well as a couple special appreciation awards. I will run it this way again, as a fun day. ALOT of work is involved of course but in the end, my exaustion is well worth it. When I get emails of thanks and phone calls of thanks like I did last year, thats payment in full for me. The track belongs to our Buicks when were there yall. And if you wanna make some laps you can. As a reference in regards to this.............Mikes wife Cindy made 26 trips downtrack in her 70 GS. Thats 26 runs in one day yall !!! If you want to make some laps come on out, have some fun, and ring out your cars. And get to meet and hang out with some of the best Buick people in the area.
If anyone has any questions in regards to this, or would like some more information on attending, my personal email is buickdav@yahoo.com . You are more than welcome to email me ANY time and I will be happy to respond to your questions directly. Also I will try and keep the various Buick websites updated with all the info as I get it. We sure would like to see more than the 6 turbo cars, that we had last year, show up and participate next year. Last year the 455's ruled the roost...........spose' yall could change that next year ??????
.
Hope to see yall there....................
later........................
**CONFIRMED SPONSORS**
Heartland transmission(Scott King)
P.A.E.(Jim Burek)
Left hand trailers(John Conilogue)
High torque racing and repo parts(Mike Garrison)
As per recomendation by Mike Garrison(racebuicks) I just want to take minute introduce myself and invite yall to Kearney Nebraska to the Great Plains Challenge. This is a small Buick event that we have put together just to have some fun and race our cars. And I am Dave Burns the event director and organizer.
We have used the 3rd weekend in July as our date the last 2 years and again this coming year that is the date we are trying to secure. The weather is hot, but of course it is summer, so what can we expect. And we have to use weekends that won't clash with other Buick events. So we try to set our dates in such that it gives us a chance to make as many races as possible for us in the midwest. For example the Pueblo Colo., Noble Ok., and now the Topeka Buicks vs. Pontiacs race. As soon as the date is set in stone I will let yall know so you can plan on attending.
Using last years race as an example heres what happened -----------
Friday- started arriving, setting up, and had a by donation BBQ. We don't run on friday, but instead park the cars and trailers at the track, crack open the "beverages" of choice and socialize. Donations were collected by several of the girls from everyone, a trip was made by them to market, and they rolled out a VERY nice BBQ dinner for all there. This alone, to me, was worth the trip. Bench racing,visiting, meeting old friends and making new ones, looking cars over, etc. Just pretty much sitting around and having fun. About midnight those that had rooms in town packed it up and made the trip into a poor defenseless parking lot
. Coolers unloaded, lawn chairs set up and, well, basically the festivities were continued. Not to mention a "repaving" of the parking lot with rubber by a couple GN's as a preview of the next days events.Saturday was raceday. Pretty much your basic get ready to run deal. The gates were opened around 7:30 and business at hand went on as with any other race. Consession stand handled lunch. At about 4 pm the gates were opened to anyone that wanted in, and at about 6 ish' the KRP crew put on a gamblers race(which Steve P. won in his 455" regal, good job Steve). Saturday evening about 30-40 of us took over a local steak house for dinner, then back to the now wounded, parking lot for another evening of fun.
Sunday was a KRP regular event day with a hot rod reunion. Several kool cars and another full day of racing for those that chose to stay and run the regular bracket schedule.
Pretty much this is set up for a fun day, with payouts to the winners, as well as a couple special appreciation awards. I will run it this way again, as a fun day. ALOT of work is involved of course but in the end, my exaustion is well worth it. When I get emails of thanks and phone calls of thanks like I did last year, thats payment in full for me. The track belongs to our Buicks when were there yall. And if you wanna make some laps you can. As a reference in regards to this.............Mikes wife Cindy made 26 trips downtrack in her 70 GS. Thats 26 runs in one day yall !!! If you want to make some laps come on out, have some fun, and ring out your cars. And get to meet and hang out with some of the best Buick people in the area.
If anyone has any questions in regards to this, or would like some more information on attending, my personal email is buickdav@yahoo.com . You are more than welcome to email me ANY time and I will be happy to respond to your questions directly. Also I will try and keep the various Buick websites updated with all the info as I get it. We sure would like to see more than the 6 turbo cars, that we had last year, show up and participate next year. Last year the 455's ruled the roost...........spose' yall could change that next year ??????
.Hope to see yall there....................
later........................
**CONFIRMED SPONSORS**
Heartland transmission(Scott King)
P.A.E.(Jim Burek)
Left hand trailers(John Conilogue)
High torque racing and repo parts(Mike Garrison)
